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Twitter Buried #DNCLeak, #PodestaEmails Tweets In Last Two Months Of Campaign
Daily Caller ^ | November 1, 2017 | Peter Hasson

Posted on 11/01/2017 12:05:58 PM PDT by maggief

Twitter buried significant portions of tweets related to hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chair John Podesta in the last two months of the 2016 presidential campaign.

Twitter’s systems hid 48 percent of tweets using the #DNCLeak hashtag and 25 percent of tweets using #PodestaEmails, Twitter general counsel Sean Edgett said in his written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.

“Approximately one quarter (25%) of [#PodestaEmails tweets] received internal tags from our automation detection systems that hid them from searches,” Edgett said.

He added that “our systems detected and hid just under half (48%) of the Tweets relating to variants of another notable hashtag, #DNCLeak, which concerned the disclosure of leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee.”

Just two percent of the tweets using the #DNCLeak hashtag came from “potentially Russian-linked accounts,” according to Edgett. He explained that Twitter hid the tweets as “part of our general efforts at the time to fight automation and spam on our platform across all areas.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dnchacked; dncleaks; hillary2016; liberalmedia; podestaemails; publicutility; regulatesocialmedia; socialmedia; spiked; twitter; twitterrussia
https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/4766f54d-d433-4055-9f3d-c94f97eeb1c0/testimony-of-sean-edgett-acting-general-counsel-twitter.pdf


1 posted on 11/01/2017 12:05:58 PM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

Steve Bannon is right. Time to regulate them as a public utility.


2 posted on 11/01/2017 12:09:43 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: maggief

Collusion


3 posted on 11/01/2017 12:10:41 PM PDT by CrappieLuck
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To: maggief

Such a nice campaign contribution


4 posted on 11/01/2017 12:14:49 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: maggief

If they buried things which consistently benefit one candidate only, why isn’t that an “in kind” campaign contribution? An illegal one at that.


5 posted on 11/01/2017 12:15:03 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie
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To: maggief

The other half of this equation is that they create trends, based on left wing politics. Yes, it’s time to regulate Twatter and Crackbook as public utilities.


6 posted on 11/01/2017 12:18:29 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: a fool in paradise

MY, MY, MY....

What a precious byte of news.

Algorithm reset button. /sarc


7 posted on 11/01/2017 12:32:08 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: maggief
“part of our general efforts at the time to fight automation and spam on our platform across all areas.”

BS. It wast o help HILLIARY AS BEST THEY COULD......TALK ABOUT COLLUSION!............................

8 posted on 11/01/2017 12:33:55 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: maggief

This is an Illegal unreported In Kind Campaign Contribution, a complaint needs to be filed immediately


9 posted on 11/01/2017 12:39:25 PM PDT by eyeamok (Idle hands are the Devil's workshop)
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10 posted on 11/01/2017 1:11:40 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

She’s disgusting.


11 posted on 11/01/2017 1:13:36 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Albion Wilde

12 posted on 11/01/2017 3:08:39 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: JonPreston

Google/YouTube also.


13 posted on 11/01/2017 3:20:18 PM PDT by KyCats
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To: trisham
Isn't she, though?

* spit *

14 posted on 11/01/2017 5:20:40 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: maggief

What was the hashtag used for describing the Trump tape? Did they bury that? What about the Russia collusion with Trump campaign? Do they filter that as well?


15 posted on 11/01/2017 5:23:03 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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What was the hashtag used for describing the Trump tape? Did they bury that? What about the Russia collusion with Trump campaign? Do they filter that as well?

No, of course not.

If you're not on Twitter - you wouldn't BELIEVE the bile and lying that goes on against conservatives and Trump supporters.

But we beat their lying @sses, constantly. :)

16 posted on 11/01/2017 9:32:36 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

This was an unreported in kind campaign donation.

Every Twitter executive belongs in jail....they will look great in orange jumpsuits!


17 posted on 11/02/2017 4:20:15 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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